Re: [ptxdist] libmd: specification of license tags

2016-10-04 Thread Andreas Pretzsch
On Di, 2016-10-04 at 16:19 +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote: > In this case, I'd say, let's just move the package to staging and not use > it at all. As I noted in my other mail, even ntp is not using it any more, > so it is no longer needed. ACK. Just sent a patch, with some information why: "libmd:

Re: [ptxdist] libmd: specification of license tags

2016-10-04 Thread Michael Olbrich
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote: > While updating the license stuff in a customer BSP, libmd hit me. > > libmd provides MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 message digest > algorithms. > Each of the respective implementations includes different license >

Re: [ptxdist] libmd: specification of license tags

2016-10-03 Thread Roland Hieber
Hi, > One option is of course to simply ignore it, i.e. not use it ;-) I don't think this is a good option ;-) > […] > Now, as I have this can of worms open anyway, what would be the best way > to specify a license tag ? Apparently util-linux is similar to that, its README.licenses says: >

[ptxdist] libmd: specification of license tags

2016-10-03 Thread Andreas Pretzsch
While updating the license stuff in a customer BSP, libmd hit me. libmd provides MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 message digest algorithms. Each of the respective implementations includes different license statements, with wrappers under beer-ware license. Copied them in below, for reference.